Anthropic
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
$280K–$320K
New York City, NY +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Location
- New York City, NY
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Years required correlate with internal job level requirements; no specific number stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; the company says it will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa after an offer.
About the job
Leads enterprise customers’ AI adoption by setting technical strategy, advising on architecture, and delivering production AI applications and agent components with Claude.
What you'll do
- Own account or vertical technical strategy, guide architecture across workstreams, and independently lead discovery and advisory engagements.
- Lead end-to-end customer delivery, including production builds, partner work, stakeholder alignment, and security and procurement planning.
- Review designs, mentor and unblock other FDEs, and share repeatable deployment insights with Product and Engineering.
What they ask for
- Extensive experience building and operating production systems, with hands-on experience with LLMs and agents.
- Strong programming skills, including proficiency in Python, and experience shipping production applications.
- Experience leading advisory and architecture-review engagements as well as hands-on builds end to end.
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
Nice to have
- Background in financial services, healthcare/life sciences, or another enterprise vertical.
- Proficiency in additional languages such as TypeScript or Java.
Pay
$280,000 — $320,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, TypeScript, Java, Claude
AI focus
Builds enterprise AI applications and agent components with Claude; advises customers on AI adoption and deployment, with attention to safety and reliability.
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